A Family Story

Desborough Study : Health & Welfare

Illegitimacy

This information was pulled out to see whether the Christian name given to an illegitimate son was likely to be that of the child's putative father or that of the mother's own
father. The results so far are inconclusive

Source, baptism record from Rec. Off. Trans., reads:Francis Lynnette the son of Edward Lynnette (the supposed father of the said child base begotten about Pipwell Abbey) being born in Mr Jo. Pulton's barn